Comparison

Book Tracker vs Reading Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Book Tracker

This app helps you organize your book collection, track your reading progress, and build a reading habit. It features a visually stunning interface with customizable themes and advanced tracking options. Capture insights, set reading challenges, and visualize your reading journey.

Highlights
  • Book tracking and digital bookshelf
  • Customizable themes and Liquid Glass design
  • Reading journal with notes and quotes
  • Reading challenge and progress tracking
  • Advanced metadata and custom properties
  • Year-in-books visualization
Features
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Bookie: Book Tracker is your ultimate reading companion, a powerful book tracker, reading journal, and digital bookshelf. Experience a world-class app where accountability meets stunning, next-generation design. Whether you're planning your next reading challenge or capturing insights from your latest novel, Bookie: Book Tracker makes it effortless to stay organized and inspired. The Next Evolution of Design: Liquid Glass & Themes Stop settling for plain interfaces. Bookie: Book Tracker introduces two revolutionary features that transform your digital bookshelf: Liquid Glass Design: Experience a minimalist, immersive UI built on frosted, semi-transparent layers that subtly shift with your content, giving your app depth and modern elegance. Requires iOS 26. Themes: Go beyond light and dark mode. Personalize every corner of your reading life with deeply customizable themes that let you control colors, backgrounds, and accents for a look that is uniquely yours. Master Your Library & Reading Challenges Go deeper than just tracking. Bookie: Book Tracker gives you the control and motivation to master your reading habits and library data: Effortless Tracking: Easily log books you're currently reading, finished, or want to read next with quick search and barcode scanning. Advanced Properties: Take total control. Add custom metadata, manage multiple editions, private tags, and track specific progress metrics for every title. Reading Challenge: Set yearly reading targets and track your progress against the Annual Reading Challenge. Bookie provides the motivation and visualization to crush your goals. Organize Your Way: Keep your wishlist, TBR pile, and completed reads in one streamlined place with custom bookshelves, genres, and statuses. Capture Knowledge & Reflect on Success Bookie is built to maximize your retention and reward your efforts with beautiful insights: Reading Journal: Log reading sessions with dates, times, and personal notes. Capture Every Insight: Save favorite quotes, write reviews, and mark memorable passages for easy recall. Your Year in Books (Lookback): Visualize your entire reading journey with insightful trends, detailed statistics, and a beautiful, shareable year-end summary. Sync, Read, and Upgrade Sync & Read Anywhere: Enjoy seamless syncing across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. Distraction-Free Experience: Maintain focus with a clean, minimalist design built for concentration. Upgrade with Bookie+ Unlock the full power of Bookie: Book Tracker with Bookie+: Add unlimited books to your shelf. Use genres, dynamic filters, and advanced search to find books, notes, and quotes in seconds. Deeply customize your reading experience for ultimate control and clarity. Download Book Tracker: Bookie: Book Tracker today—the best way to log books, build a lasting reading habit, and experience the future of digital bookshelf design. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Reading Tracker

This app helps book lovers organize their reading life. Track books you want to read, are currently reading, or have finished. Add notes, set goals, and view statistics on your reading habits.

Highlights
  • Organize books into TBR, In Progress, Completed, Abandoned lists
  • Add notes, custom ratings, and tags
  • Set and track reading goals
  • Detailed reading statistics
  • Sync across devices with iCloud
Features
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ReadTracker is the ultimate tool for avid readers to organize, track, and enhance their reading experience. Whether you’re managing your to-be-read (TBR) list, keeping up with in-progress books, or reflecting on completed ones, ReadTracker helps you stay on top of it all. Add notes, set reading goals, categorize books with tags, and enjoy powerful statistics to visualize your progress over time. Key Features: • Organize books into TBR, In Progress, Completed, and Abandoned lists • Add personal notes, custom ratings (half-stars and emojis supported!), and tags to books • Set and track reading goals • Detailed statistics on pages read, time spent, and more (even more statistics on Pro version) • Seamless sync across devices with iCloud (Premium feature) Stay motivated, stay organized, and make every reading session count with ReadTracker. Link to standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Book Tracker4 screens
Reading Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Reading Tracker at 89% against Book Tracker's 27%. Reading Tracker also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.1) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Book Tracker's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Book Tracker sells 12 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Reading Tracker sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Reading Tracker holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 106 and 282 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 27% of Book Tracker's written reviews are positive against 89% of Reading Tracker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Book Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, Reading Tracker weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Book Tracker versus Reading Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBook TrackerReading Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (106 ratings)4.8 (282 ratings) — better
Positive reviews26.9% of reviews89.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings106282 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size202 MB363 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJakub MilcarzMario Luis Gutierrez Abed

Customer experience

Book Tracker

All ratings106 ratings
Positive75.5%
Neutral5.7%
Negative18.9%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive26.9%
Neutral19.2%
Negative53.8%

Reading Tracker

All ratings282 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews91 reviews
Positive89.0%
Neutral5.5%
Negative5.5%

Bugs and requests

Book Tracker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Reading Tracker

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Issues with saving book details after editing
  • Problems with changing or deleting tags

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to add and track ARCs
  • Support for reading ebooks and audiobooks directly in the app
  • Annotation and highlighting features for ebooks
  • Batch editing of book formats (ebook, physical, audiobook)
  • Apple Watch app

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Book Tracker

Subscriptions9
  • Bookie+ (Monthly)3 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Bookie+ Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Bookie+ Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
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  • Bookie+ Weekly3 Days trial$4.997 Days
  • Bookie+ (Monthly)3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Bookie+ Weekly3 Days trial$5.997 Days
  • Bookie+ (Annual)$12.991 Year
  • Bookie+ Annual$19.991 Year
  • Bookie+ (Annual)$24.991 Year
One-time3
  • Bookie+ (Lifetime)$24.99
  • Bookie+ Lifetime$39.99
  • Bookie+ (Lifetime)$49.99
14 purchases

Reading Tracker

Subscriptions7
  • Full Premium Access3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Full Premium Access2 variants$3.991 Month
  • Full Premium Access$4.997 Days
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  • Full Premium Access$5.991 Month
  • Full Premium Access$19.996 Months
  • Full Premium Access7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • All Access$24.991 Year
One-time7
  • Small Coffee$1.99
  • Medium Coffee$3.99
  • Large Coffee$7.99
Show 4 more
  • Lifetime Bookworm access$9.99
  • Lifetime Premium access$49.99
  • Lifetime Premium access$69.99
  • Lifetime Premium access$199.99

Questions

Is Book Tracker free?
Book Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Reading Tracker free?
Reading Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Book Tracker or Reading Tracker?
Reading Tracker is rated higher. Book Tracker averages 4.1 out of 5 from 106 ratings, while Reading Tracker averages 4.8 from 282 ratings.
Do Book Tracker or Reading Tracker have ads?
Neither Book Tracker nor Reading Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Book Tracker or Reading Tracker?
Book Tracker ships an update every 3 weeks, and Reading Tracker weekly. Most recently, Book Tracker was updated on September 27, 2026 and Reading Tracker on September 30, 2026.

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